Word: anti-communist
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Hoberman says this sort of thematic juggling-act is characteristic of Cold War-era films. He cites anti-communist sentiment and the fear of dehumanization at the hands of a totalitarian power as important concerns. “They’re themes that different filmmakers apply themselves to and that different audiences respond to,” Hoberman says...
Hoberman says that to divide Cold War-era films into hard-line, anti-communist propaganda pieces and free thinking anti-McCarthyite films of resistance would be an oversimplification of a complex history. Though he notes that the animated film version of George Orwell’s anti-communist allegory “Animal Farm” was partially funded by the CIA, Hoberman says some studios that produced right-wing Cold War films were just being intelligent...
...while R.G. Springsteen’s “Red Menace” (1949) may be the work of a true anti-communist believer, Hoberman argues that “Pickup on South St.” (Samuel Fuller, 1953), which features communist spies and a McCarthyite hero who is also a criminal, “seems like it might be one of the anti-communist movies but is actually much crazier...
...under way across eastern Europe. Embraced as a political weapon by right-wing parties against their enemies, it is targeting anyone with even remote ties to the communist past. In Poland this process has gained fresh momentum over the past year following the election of a right-wing, anti-communist coalition government led by twin brothers who began their careers battling communists alongside Lech Walesa and the Solidarity trade union movement. Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who is standing in for Wielgus until the Vatican names a replacement, said a witch-hunt is under way: "Today Archbishop Wielgus was tried. But what...
...been substantiated. In 1990 a large number of files held by the communist interior ministry on the Polish clergy mysteriously vanished. A former communist official later said they were handed over to the Church. More recently, a priest in Krakow named Tadeusz Isakowicz Zaleski, who was working on a book about priests in the Krakow diocese who cooperated with communist secret police, was ordered to be silent by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former personal secretary of Pope John Paul II. The late pontiff, while a strident anti-communist, was not unsympathetic to Polish priests who had cooperated with communists authorities...